When I Set the Sweetgrass Down

<p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Many poets write about the natural world - few poets write while acting directly to defend the natural world like environmental activist and attorney Will Falk does in </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>When I Set the Sweetgrass Down. </em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The natural world speaks Falk insists in these biophilic poems written from the frontlines of land defense campaigns. These poems are a record of what Falk heard from the natural world in places like Thacker Pass Nevada where Falk set up a protest occupation in a beautiful mountain pass set for destruction by an open pit mine and Hawaii's Mauna Kea where Falk helped to blockade telescope construction from desecrating the sacred mountain. At a time when the destruction of the natural world is intensifying </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>When I Set the Sweetgrass Down </em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>will help readers find the courage they need to - and remind them why they must - act to defend the source of all life: the natural world.</span></p>